Gabriel Segal
Biographic Data
| ID | 5912035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriel Segal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriel |
| FAMILY NAME | Segal |
| SIGNATURE | SEGAL G |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Understanding addiction
The aims of this article are threefold: (i) to show how the work of American philosopher, Donald Davidson can throw light on the concept of addiction; (ii) to argue thereby that addiction is not a myth; and (iii) to help understand the addicted person's experience of feeling compelled to behave repeatedly in ways she does not want. Addictive behaviour is obviously intentional and this had led some to argue that addiction is a myth. In contrast, w…
A plague on both your houses”
Keep making sense
Theories of Theories of Mind
Theories of Theories of Mind brings together contributions by a distinguished international team of philosophers, psychologists, and primatologists, who between them address such questions as: what is it to understand the thoughts, feelings, and intentions of other people? How does such an understanding develop in the normal child? Why, unusually, does it fail to develop? And is any such mentalistic understanding shared by members of other specie…
Knowledge of Meaning
Current textbooks in formal semantics are all versions of, or introductions to, the same paradigm in semantic theory: Montague Grammar. Knowledge of Meaning is based on different assumptions and a different history. It provides the only introduction to truth- theoretic semantics for natural languages, fully integrating semantic theory into the modern Chomskyan program in linguistic theory and connecting linguistic semantics to research elsewhere …
Belief in Psychology
Consciousness
Seeing What is not There
1 would like to thank the following, for many helpful comments, criticisms and/or discussions: Mike Antony, Ned Block, George Boolos, Tyler Burge, Noam Chomsky, Ellery Eells, Malcolm Forster, David Kirsh, Jay Lebed, Sarah Patterson, Paul Pietroski, Elliot Sober and an anonymous reviewer. Thanks also to Ellen Hildreth, of the M.I.T. Vision Laboratory, for information about the computational theory of vision, and help with Marr exegesis. And thanks…
Seeing What is not There
1 would like to thank the following, for many helpful comments, criticisms and/or discussions: Mike Antony, Ned Block, George Boolos, Tyler Burge, Noam Chomsky, Ellery Eells, Malcolm Forster, David Kirsh, Jay Lebed, Sarah Patterson, Paul Pietroski, Elliot Sober and an anonymous reviewer. Thanks also to Ellen Hildreth, of the M.I.T. Vision Laboratory, for information about the computational theory of vision, and help with Marr exegesis. And thanks…
Theories of Theories of Mind
Theories of Theories of Mind brings together contributions by a distinguished international team of philosophers, psychologists, and primatologists, who between them address such questions as: what is it to understand the thoughts, feelings, and intentions of other people? How does such an understanding develop in the normal child? Why, unusually, does it fail to develop? And is any such mentalistic understanding shared by members of other specie…
Keep making sense
Seeing What is not There
1 would like to thank the following, for many helpful comments, criticisms and/or discussions: Mike Antony, Ned Block, George Boolos, Tyler Burge, Noam Chomsky, Ellery Eells, Malcolm Forster, David Kirsh, Jay Lebed, Sarah Patterson, Paul Pietroski, Elliot Sober and an anonymous reviewer. Thanks also to Ellen Hildreth, of the M.I.T. Vision Laboratory, for information about the computational theory of vision, and help with Marr exegesis. And thanks…
Belief in Psychology
Consciousness
Knowledge of Meaning
Current textbooks in formal semantics are all versions of, or introductions to, the same paradigm in semantic theory: Montague Grammar. Knowledge of Meaning is based on different assumptions and a different history. It provides the only introduction to truth- theoretic semantics for natural languages, fully integrating semantic theory into the modern Chomskyan program in linguistic theory and connecting linguistic semantics to research elsewhere …
Theories of Theories of Mind
Theories of Theories of Mind brings together contributions by a distinguished international team of philosophers, psychologists, and primatologists, who between them address such questions as: what is it to understand the thoughts, feelings, and intentions of other people? How does such an understanding develop in the normal child? Why, unusually, does it fail to develop? And is any such mentalistic understanding shared by members of other specie…
Keep making sense
Understanding addiction
The aims of this article are threefold: (i) to show how the work of American philosopher, Donald Davidson can throw light on the concept of addiction; (ii) to argue thereby that addiction is not a myth; and (iii) to help understand the addicted person's experience of feeling compelled to behave repeatedly in ways she does not want. Addictive behaviour is obviously intentional and this had led some to argue that addiction is a myth. In contrast, w…
A plague on both your houses”
Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Analytic philosophy (2 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (2 works) · Cognitive science (2 works) · Contemporary philosophy (2 works) · Feeling (2 works) · General interest (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)